Have I missed this boat?* I was unable to commit previously but I discover now that I'm on annual leave for the whole of June, prior to terminating my contract. I have a couple of engagements the following week (speaking at a conference, pouring gargantuan quantities of liquor down the throats of ev...

... I'd have murdered the lot of them, starting with Harriet. Rather a harsh critique on poor Harriet Walters' efforts in the 1987 TV adaptation. Personally I thought she was rather good and played off Edward Petherbridge's foppish twit better than most would have been able to. Ian Carmichael was b...

That I am tediously repetitive I will allow, but I think this is the first reference to "Busman's Honeymoon" made here or indeed anywhere else on this forum, unless I am wrong. Which has been known. Good day to you sir! Gad. I stand corrected then. I feel sure I had discussed those unfortunate bott...

TPF is also a forum of many learned and scholarly souls, some of us frequenting the rarer, loftier realms of academe. We should probably organise a viva voce with you soon to check that you can adequately defend your research (into drinking port).

You should also make sure that you have been standing on your head for 15 minutes of every hour before drinking. And whilst you may want to wear linen trousers, these could impair the flavour of the port, in which case a neoprene overcoat can be adopted. Really, so few rules, and so little time to d...

Dorothy Sayers again in "Busman's honeymoon" (not one of her strongest) has Bunter, Wimsey's valet exploding with rage when Mrs Ruddle washes and stands upright two and a half dozen of the Cockburn '96. The horror. Just for variation I am looking into a reference in Raymond Chandler's "The High Win...

B&F closes 10pm on Mondays. Is there a reason why not Tuesday? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Only picked a Monday as this is when we have tended to hold tastings. However, happy to slightly revise the date fort this tasting to be Tuesday 10 October 2017. On Thu 05 Jan 2017 the poster was chan...

On Thu 05 Jan 2017 the poster was changed from djewesbury to idj123 , to give the latter control over this post and the title of the thread. — jdaw1. Ian: when a date is selected please edit the first post to add it to the title. I wonder what Schubert would have thought of the ownership of his Sym...

Has anyone tried one of these Barwise corkscrews? I seem to have left my old Le Creuset / Screwpull behind me, and noticed that the old model has been discontinued (though I'm sure they're still available). I'm not daft enough to pay £125 for a Durand.

The only 55 I have is a Butler Nephew, so it will be coming along too. I need to report a theft. Having reserved my BN55 for this tasting it seems that someone stole it from my cellar, took it to the Douro during this year's harvest and drunk it :shock: I will need to adopt, please. The exemplary d...

JustinK visited Belfast last night and we opened a modest selection of bottles. No tasting notes were written but we enjoyed all the wines: Dow 63, the lowest-ullaged bottle from a recently acquired small stash, in surprisingly good shape, I remember fine spirit and pepperiness, a little tannin.. Co...

I posted to say I couldn't go. Weeks back. It must be those pesky admins, randomly deleting posts again. I blame all that cheeky Vimto consumed while administrating. Damn censorship; I bet that I won't even be allowed to say Or maybe it was the fact that I attempted posting it while I was drinking ...

and I'm not even going to the Xmas tasting. You are currently still confirmed for a place at the Xmas tasting, so if you are able to attend then you could still make another TPF tasting this year. If you are no longer able however, please confirm in that thread. I posted to say I couldn't go. Weeks...